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why science and politics don't mix
It’s become a new ritual in American politics. At some rally, a candidate campaigning for public office says that he never did well in math and science and unlike his elitist, smarmy opponent, he knows...
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a bad week for science in politics
Discussions about global warming and certain lawmakers just don’t mix. Obviously they have a right to voice their opinions about climate change just like every one of us, but some of the things they...
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who keeps electing this woman?
Michele Bachmann is either taking us all for a ride or she has suffered a very messy divorce from reality over the last year. After calling for a McCarthy style investigation into “un-American...
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a political cavalcade of mistakes
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews decided to find out whether Republican Representative Mike Pence accepts that the theory of evolution is valid. What he got in reply was nearly four minutes of talking points...
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scientific ignorance at taxpayers' expense
Watching committee meetings about rural development doesn’t exactly make for must see TV and I think that it’s fairly safe to say that all those CSI and detective shows don’t have to worry about their...
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to boldly try to go again. maybe. kind of…
President Obama has been trying to rejuvenate NASA and trying to move a great deal of spacecraft design to ambitious space tourism startups who’ve been just waiting for a chance to sell their skills to...
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cyber-security. you’re doing it very wrong.
Just when I think that politicians can’t be any more disappointing than they are today, and there’s nothing they could do to make themselves look even more clueless and inept, Joe Lieberman manages to...
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why dog eat dog politics is a really bad thing
Famous atheist and political commentator Christopher Hitchens, managed to find just enough time between chemotherapy and his grueling schedule of debates and public appearances to write a column about...
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putting science on the chopping block, again
Although economics is an inexact science at best, and many would hesitate to even call it a science, it does have a few universally accepted rules backed up by math, and one of the most important ones...
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the onion explains how science is funded
One of the topics I tried to explore last year is scientific funding and the problems with having lawmakers who either just don’t care about scientific research, or use scientists as convenient...
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yes, education is good for you, stop whining.
It’s often said that politicians are two faced, and generally for a good reason. While the double standards of a disturbing majority of them fill entire libraries dedicated to cataloging modern...
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excuse me senators, you want to do what?!
In times of war, a lot of laws tend to get suspended, overlooked, or modified to provide some sort of a military exemption and these changes are then rarely discussed once the war is over. During the...
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censoring the web one keyword at a time
Digital rights activists often bemoan random sites being blacklisted by communication companies requested to filter certain types of content by government agencies around the world. Their lax attitude...
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when politicians and technology don’t mix
Something new, odd, and rather exciting is starting to happen in the world of defense and intelligence. Rather than classify the pencil on which a programmer working on a subroutine or a method in a...
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the peter principle stacks the deck against science
According to the famous Peter Principle, everyone eventually rises to a level of incompetence in an organization and nowhere does it seem to be more true than in Congress. As pointed out by many...
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why politicians make bad mission planners
If you allow me the indulgence, I’d like to once again take an article about something not exactly all that relevant to science and technology, and go off on an important tangent. In this case, the...
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when scientists have to fight political hacks
Here’s an extremely uncomfortable truth no one currently running for office in the U.S., or even remotely considering doing so ever wants to publicly admit. There are a lot of voters who really,...
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scientific ignorance at taxpayers’ expense
Hypercontinent of Pangea, 250 mya Watching committee meetings about rural development doesn’t exactly make for must see TV and I think that it’s fairly safe to say that all those CSI and detective...
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to boldly try to go again. maybe. kind of…
President Obama has been trying to rejuvenate NASA and trying to move a great deal of spacecraft design to ambitious space tourism startups who’ve been just waiting for a chance to sell their skills...
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putting science on the chopping block, again
Although economics is an inexact science at best, and many would hesitate to even call it a science, it does have a few universally accepted rules backed up by math, and one of the most important ones...
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